Kuwait, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has been grappling with a severe electricity shortage driven by rapid population growth, urban expansion, rising temperatures, and delays in maintenance at some power plants. Since last year, the government has resorted to planned power cuts in some areas to reduce the load. […]
The holidays on Eid’s occasion will start on Thursday, June 5, 2025, corresponding to 9 Zul-Hijjah 1446 AH, and will continue until Monday, June 9, 2025, corresponding to 13 Zul-Hijjah 1446 AH. Employees in government organisations, public organisations or entities, and private sector businesses will observe the break. The official work will resume on Tuesday, […]
Financial markets, which have whipsawed wildly in response to every twist and turn in Trump’s chaotic trade war, reacted with cautious optimism on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump overstepped his authority in imposing punitive tariffs on virtually every country in the world. But analysts said broad uncertainty […]
Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, was sentenced to over 10 years in prison for organizing logistics, and co-conspirator Steve Anthony Shand, 50, was sentenced to over six years for picking up migrants in the United States. A jury convicted the duo for their work in a “large-scale human smuggling operation that brought Indian nationals to Canada […]
According to details, SFJ has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, demanding action against Indian officials implicated in the alleged conspiracy to assassinate American citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The organization called on the Trump administration to take decisive steps against the Indian operatives involved in the attempted contract killing of Pannun, […]
China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off around 1:31 a.m. local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, which over the next year will approach the small near-Earth asteroid named 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, some 10 million miles away. Chinese state media Xinhua confirmed the launch of Tianwen-2 and dubbed it a “complete […]
If applied to a broad segment of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese university students in the United States, the move could disrupt a major source of income for American schools and a crucial pipeline of talent for US technology companies President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas […]
“General Bakshi, you need to study history. No power in the world can break the China-Pakistan friendship,” Gao told the retired Indian army general when he questioned the Islamabad-Beijing ties. While the program began with conventional analysis, it escalated quickly when General Bakshi repeated his allegations against Pakistan. In response, Victor Gao not only confronted […]
A.T.M. Azharul Islam, from the Jamaat-e-Islami party, who has been in custody since 2012, was acquitted of crimes against humanity by the Supreme Court, which ordered his release. Islam, who was born in 1952, was among six senior political leaders convicted during the tenure of Sheikh Hasina, whose 15-year-long autocratic rule as prime minister ended […]
Some Israelis chanted, “Death to Arabs” and “May your village burn,” as they marched through the alleyways of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, going through the Muslim quarter to mark “Jerusalem Day”, which commemorates the Israeli occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 war. Thousands of heavily armed police and border police were […]
